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Kappeln

Kappeln is our final destination for 2015. This is where we keep Tioga over the winter (at Ancker Yachting).

We left Schilksee in the morning (with our special guest, Helmut, a friend from Kiel) and had a nice and windy broad reach down towards Schleimuende, took the sails down, passed the lighthouse and motored against the stiff breeze up the Schlei. Going up the narrow channel of the Schlei is always something special. Lots of thatched roofed houses, a mixture of green forests and yellow farmland, various marinas and lots of shallow water.

Ancker had reserved us a very nice spot and it happened to be next to friends of us that we had met 2 years earlier during a sailing trip. The skipper bought yet another SIM card to keep his internet speed up and the crew (Ellen, Corinna and Thomas) get going packing up the equipment.
As before, it was good to have friends. Urte organized us a Mercedes Sprinter for the next day and Helmut drove it from Kiel to Kappeln and helped us throughout the day to move equipment to winter storage. Thanks a lot!
In the afternoon the mast was pulled and Tioga lifted out of the water. She now sits in the temporary spot where dirty water can be collected after power-washing etc. The engine is winterized and all the remaining equipment is taken off the boat.

We can now focus on fixing the fridge (that had stopped working after the wet sail along the North Sea coast) and more importantly, replacing the mast. This is a big deal and will take us quite a while to sort out. The mast has developed a significant crack and can no longer be used. We were very lucky making it to our winter storage location in one piece. And again, good to have friends. Bob is already connecting us with friends with similar experiences as well as other mast manufacturers in Europe, while Kevin is making sure we are buying the right equipment for the boat.
While this sounds like a very expensive endeavor, we are hopeful to have this sorted out by spring 2016.

Our dinner at the Missunder Faehrhaus was a nice finish to our third leg.

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We’ve enjoyed following your adventures – and sometimes worried – so congratulations on successfully reaching your destination! We look forward to seeing you safely back in Nahant soon and then next summer and the one after following you again, and then seeing you AND Tioga in Nahant.